Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus is the first instrumental and sixth overall studio album and by Omar Rodríguez-López, released by Infrasonic Sound[1][2] on September 19, 2008. It is one of four solo albums completed in 2001 by Omar Rodríguez-López during the interim period following the demise of At the Drive-In and the formation of The Mars Volta. Absence... was tracked at Doug Messenger's North Hollywood studio only a few weeks after Rodriguez-Lopez recorded A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One there, and is comparable to that project in both sound and atmosphere.
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| Released | September 19, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2001-? | |||
| Genre | Experimental rock | |||
| Length | 43:41 | |||
| Label | Infrasonic Sound | |||
| Producer | Omar Rodríguez-López | |||
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The album features several tracks that were "originally intended for use by The Mars Volta". The second half of "Hands Tied to the Roots of a Hemorrhage" was reworked as a middle section of "Eriatarka" on The Mars Volta's first full-length, De-loused in the Comatorium. "Tied Prom Digs on the Docks" features musical ideas that were later used on "Cassandra Gemini" on Frances the Mute. In addition, the song "Teflon" from the 2009 album Octahedron would be based on the instrumental "A Story Teeth Rotted For".
No personnel credits are listed in the insert for either the LP or CD, though it features a photograph of Jeremy Michael Ward never seen prior to this release. According to press release, Ward didn't play on the album but was present during the sessions.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Omar Rodríguez-López.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Hands Tied to the Roots of a Hemorrhage" | 4:05 |
| 2. | "City Dreams Inside a Truck" | 1:44 |
| 3. | "Sex, Consolation for Misery" | 4:25 |
| 4. | "Tied Prom Digs on the Docks" | 11:24 |
| 5. | "Seeth of Cloudless Hymstone" | 2:45 |
| 6. | "Mood Swings" | 6:53 |
| 7. | "An Ancient Shrewdness in the Veins" | 4:10 |
| 8. | "A Story Teeth Rotted For" | 3:48 |
| 9. | "Of Ankles to Stone" | 4:32 |
| Total length: | 43:41 | |
Release history
| Region | Date | Label |
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| Germany | September 19, 2008 | Willie Anderson Recordings |
| United Kingdom | September 22, 2008 | Willie Anderson Recordings |
| United States | October 28, 2008 | Infrasonic Sound |
Personnel
- Omar Rodríguez-López – guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, piano, drum machine, percussion, melodica
- Blake Fleming – drums (1,4,9)
- Marcel Rodríguez-López – drums, percussion (3,7)
- Adrián Terrazas-González – saxophone
- Jon Debaun – engineering
- Shaun Michael Sullivan – mixing
References
- "Infrasonic Sound". Archived from the original on 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- Cargo Records
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